Blues/Rock song. Jay Ramsey helped by playing harmonica and added some fine guitar playing and I recorded everything else at my recording studio in Las Vegas. Reminisce about the old steam engine train and how you could hear it coming.
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My Grandfather in Texas had a saying everytime he would hear the train go behind our house----he would always say, "Trains a camin', Howed you knew---I heer'ed it blew". Well, I didn't think most people would know that it was some kind of Southern Slang---so I wrote this with more recognizable lyrics.
Lyrics
Trains A Comin’
Trains A Comin, How’d I Knew
I Heard that lonesome whistle blew
I remember that lonely sound
All my memories goin’ round and round
Lay a penny on the railroad track
watch the wheels squash it, as you run right back
It don’t take much when you got time to kill
Anything at all will give you a thrill
That’s the way it was when I was a kid
Learn’n from life that’s the way it was did (then).
Keep it simple and never tell a lie
Use a firm hand shake---and look’m in the eye.
Trains A Comin’ Here it comes Trains A Comin’ Here in comes.
Instrumental
My Grandad told me---Son, just this one thing
Even thou you’re reachin for that big brass ring
You sign on to work---like it or not
Give “The Man” your best---the best that you’ve got.
Trains A Comin’ that’s for sure
Trains A Comin’ that’s for sure
I remember that lonesome sound
All my memories goin’ round and roung
That’s the way it was when I was a kid
Learn’n from life that’s the way it was did (then).
Keep it simple and never tell a lie
Use a firm hand shake ---and look’m in the eye.
Trains A Comin’ here it comes Trains a Comin’ Hear it comes.
